Refactoring Large Controllers

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Hi all,

I've got a Ruby on Rails application where I render a lot of RJS stuff onto a page. Because of this I've kept all the logic inside pretty much one controller. This controller is now pretty big with lots of functions. I was wondering what is the best way to refactor it?

I was thinking about moving some methods into a helper module, but it seems that helpers are for views only. Can a method even render an RJS file? What else can I do?

Thanks.

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If you have lots of well-factored private methods in your controller, they're good candidates to be moved into a model class or some other class. My buddy, Zach Dennis, put together a nice tutorial for RailsConf entitled, "Refactoring Your Rails Application." It was well-received. More info here:

http://continuousthinking.com/2008/6/3/refactoring-your-rails-application-tutorial-content

Craig